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Article: The Good Critic.(Critical Essays)(War Prose)(Book Review)
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- American Scholar
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- June 22, 2004
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CRITICAL ESSAYS By Ford Madax Ford. Edited and introduced by Max Saunders and Richard Stung. New York University Press. $45.
WAR PROSE By Ford Madax Ford. Edited and introduced by Max Saunders. New York University Press. $40.
"I love sweeping dicta; they awaken trains of thought, they suggest," wrote Ford Madox Ford. In Critical Essays, a new selection of Ford's previously uncollected writings on literature and art, there are sweeping dicta aplenty. "The object of a work of art is to carry conviction," he proclaims, and his statements consistently carry the force of his own conviction, even if they are not always perfectly consistent. No matter what his ...